Loon na werk 1780 – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Loon na werk 1780
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Its Dutch title, *Loon na werk*, translates roughly as "wages for work," which suggests a satire about payment owed for services rendered. The 1780 mezzotint is catalogued among Dutch political satires, and its subject headings tie it to international relations, assault and battery, and the American Revolution. That year Dutch merchants were trading with the American rebels while tensions with Britain climbed, and by December Britain had declared war on the Dutch Republic. Prints like this one show how Dutch readers were following that quarrel.
| Created / published | 1780 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : mezzotint. |
| Genre | Cartoons (Commentary) Dutch 1780.Mezzotints Dutch 1780. |
| Notes | Title from item. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5715 Forms part of: British Cartoon Prints Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 778. |
| Subjects | International relations--1780. Assault and battery--1780. United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,126 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122558 |
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